Lauren Is A Roller Disco Champ

So I went to Castle Skateland with Kathleen and Breanne today, and it was all good. Nik might've come too if he didn't have a baseball game, and I don't think Lauren wanted to come. I surmised it was because she was secretly a roller disco champion and didn't want us to feel bad with our inferior skating ability. Lauren's nice like that.

The three of us get to the place, we rent our skates, and I swore I wouldn't be able to skate. The last time I had rollerskated was four years ago or so when I was still in Latchkey ('cause we would go to Castle Skateland every now and then). But lo and behold, I stand up in my rollerskates with the funky orange wheels and all my skating experience flows into me. I was a BEAST.

Kathleen, unfortunately, wasn't so lucky. Breanne was a small degree better off, but they both got used to it. Sadly, none of us knew how to stop, so we either slowed down or we ran into a wall or something. Overall, the entire skating thing was pretty entertaining.

However, not everything was so peachy. Castle Skateland has always, and probably will forever, have a DJ playing music for the skate floor. Next to this small platform there is a clipboard where one can request songs. Breanne, Kathleen, and I, in our fit of nostalgia, want the Spice Girls. So Breanne wrote it down. When we go back to request another song (Britney Spears, I do believe), and scatered on this piece of paper is this horribly long list of rap songs. These small children have been exposed to this genre WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much, and half the songs are directly associated with sex.

When I was a kid, the popular songs might have had some sexual undertones, but they were never direct about these things.

Every major world power has, at some point, come to a point of destruction. Rome got too egotistical, and was easily defeated in battle. The Mayans and Aztecs were slaughtered by travelers from Spain. The Ottomans just fell out of the spotlight and eventually crumbled. America, sadly, is going to implode because of the youth being exposed to all this crap-filled garbage people attempt to label music. And seriously, if you don't see that, you're just stupid.

It's Not Illegal If You Get Away With It

Okay, Mr. Still (my Engineering Drawing teacher, he's really cool) was absent today because he had to go somewhere. Don't ask me, I don't have a clue. Anyway, the substitute is sitting there like he's supposed to and everyone is on the computers, and these two guys (who are complete retards, by the way) keep pestering the man if they can play computer games. He tells them to wait, so they decide to go on the Internet and try and find the song "Candy Shop." Seriously, that class tries my nerves every day, but so far, my nerves have been winning.

Another thing.

Every day I leave Strings class, I have to walk across the lobby, through a hallway, down a flight of stairs, and through a second hallway to get to my locker. There, I grab my things for History class, and I then continue on my merry way to History class ("Oh, Patrick, you're such a great liar. How can you possibly stand being stuck in that class when the teacher just lectures and continuously giving out notes that are stupid?").

Now if you divide this second hall into five even pieces, four of those fifths are taken up by people going the opposite direction from me before the bell rings. This is how it usually works, and I, along with anybody else going my way, am forced to go in this small one-fifth portion of an already skinny hallway. Of course, this particular afternoon-- which was Tuesday, I believe-- people going in the opposite direction as me start thinking, "You know, I don't want to be caught in this throng of people. I'll take up this available space which is coincidentally the only space given to others. Oh, well, I'll be snobby and do it anyway, because I'm a snob."

So, of course, people come up in MY piece of hallway and try to impede MY path.

Well, no more! The usual me would just move his shoulders to slip by the others, but today I don't feel like taking it anymore. I freaking ram into these people, despite the fact if they were annoying people or girls or whatever. I was as rude as possible for me (which isn't very much), and I knock shoulders with these other people. The up-side is I ran into another annoying student from my Engineering Drawing class, a senior.

So yay, me. I win.

It's Almost Christmas!

Yeah, so I needed a title for my post, and that's what Michael said last week in Strings class. It was Thursday, and he was busy having epiphanies.

Anyway, I'm bored, so I felt like writing something. And here it is.